Beyond Category - by John Edward Hasse (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Unlike other great bandleaders, Ellington personally created nearly all the music played by his orchestra. Using family papers, sheet music, and original recordings, Hasse provides a complete portrait of Ellington's great achievements. 119 photos. Tie-in with the October 1993 Duke Ellington Photographic Exhibition at the Museum of New York.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i></i>The analyses of both Ellington's music and his enigmatic personality are delineated with rare insight.--Leonard Feather, author of <i>The Encyclopedia of Jazz</i></b><br>One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) led a fascinating life. <i>Beyond Category, </i> the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution, recounts his remarkable career: his childhood in Washington, D.C., and his musical apprenticeship in Harlem; his long engagement at the Cotton Club; the challenging years of the depression; his tours to Europe and into America's deep South, where he helped lower racial barriers; the postwar years when television and bebop threatened to eclipse the big bands; Ellington's own triumphant comeback at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival; his collaborations with Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, and Ella Fitzgerald; as well as five decades of hits and masterpieces that constantly broke new ground.<br>The art of Duke Ellington was a musical expression of the African-American experience, in all its pain, pride, and glory. He composed his music as he composed his life-with flair, passion, and individuality-and no book reveals the man and his artistic evolution more brilliantly than <i>Beyond Category.</i><i><br></i><i>Foreword by Wynton Marsalis<br></i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Music historian, musician, award-winning author and record producer, <b>John Edward Hasse </b>has served as curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the editor of <i>Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music</i>, and coeditor of <i>Discourse in Ethnomusicology.</i>
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